2nd Year of the Czech Architecture Prize - Submitting Applications

Schedule of the 2nd year of the Czech Architecture Award:

January 18, 2017 – Press conference – Announcement of the 2nd year of the CCA 2017 and opening of applications for realizations to the CCA 2017
March 2, 2017 – Opening of the CCA 2016 exhibition, Gallery of Architecture Brno
March 3 – April 2, 2017 – CCA 2016 exhibition, Gallery of Architecture Brno
March 31, 2017 – End of receiving proposals for registration of realizations from the CCA Academy
April 21, 2017 – End of applications for the CCA 2017 and end of receiving nominations for Exceptional Achievement from the CCA Academy
April 24 – May 31, 2017 – Voting by the international jury on the nominated projects of the CCA 2017
June 2017 – Nomination evening of the CCA 2017 and Architects on the Same Boat
June – October 2017 – Jury meetings for the CCA 2017 in the Czech Republic, selection of finalists and the winner of the main CCA award, Voting by the CCA Academy on the Exceptional Achievement awards, Selection of extraordinary award recipients
November 2017 – GALA EVENING OF CCA 2017

The holder of the main award and its finalists will be introduced at a festive gala evening, which will take place at the end of this year. Like in the successful pilot year, the CCA will rely on a seven-member international jury, a professional academy, and year-round regional promotion of architecture. The competition exhibition is open to architectural realizations built in the territory of the Czech Republic in the last five years. Registration will again be conducted through an online form and is not associated with any costs for the participating architects.
The results will be decided by an international expert jury, which will select approximately 50 nominated works in June 2017. From this group, the jury will then choose around 5 to 10 works that will be awarded the honorary designation of Finalist CCA, and from which the jury will select the main award winner. Awards for exceptional achievement will also be granted, with their selection carried out by the Academy and CCA Council. Special awards will also be distributed, with their laureates proposed by the partners of the award.

The work of Czech architects will once again be evaluated by seven qualified foreign experts. A member of the international expert jury for 2017 is Slovenian architect Matija Bevk, a specialist in significant public contracts and architectural competitions. Currently, he is also preparing a project for a new neighborhood in Prague’s Modřany according to an urban-architectural study by Bevk Perović Arhitekti. Another juror is architect Jiří Oplatek, who is among the most prominent Czech architects working abroad, specifically in Basel, Switzerland. Switzerland will also be represented by architect Doris Wälchli, who was introduced to the Czech public in 2013 by the Jaroslav Fragner Gallery. Without a doubt, a prominent figure will also be Polish architect and illustrator Jakub Szczęsny. His most famous realization is the so-called Keret House, a Warsaw refuge for traveling writers. The house is built on a nearly impossible site – a narrow gap in the existing historic buildings in the center of Warsaw, with a width ranging from only 92 to 152 centimeters! The landscape architecture section in the jury is represented by Dutchman Eelco Hooftman, who is the founder of the world-renowned landscape studio – GROSS.MAX. in Edinburgh. The second lady on the jury will be Marianne Loof from the Netherlands, who is a partner at the large architectural studio LEVS architecten in Amsterdam. She was introduced to the Czech public in a series of lectures called Dutch Ladies in 2007, organized by the Faculty of Architecture CVUT in Prague. The Slovak Republic will be represented by architect Lubomír Závodný, who has extensive experience judging similar competitive exhibitions and is also the holder of several Slovak industry awards.

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